We are masers of physics, whether we were good at it in school or not. We have an intuitive ability to predict how objects behave in the world around us. This is thanks to the brain's "physics engine".
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Jason Fischer and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, scanned people's brains doing a task involving intuition. It was found that we have a physics engine, like a game engine, that predicts how things will happen.
Avoiding someone walking towards you. Balancing a cup and changing it's angle to avoid a spill. A ball rolls off a table and we catch it. Riding a bike we constantly keep balance. These are all acts done by our high processing brain to make predictions about the future.
We make 3D models of objects in the world to plan out how they move. We do this in our minds, before they happen in reality, and without even seeing it in the brain's vision center. It turns out, we don't execute any actions without first running a model of it in our heads. And we do this on a mere 20watts of power. No game engine will do that. We use a tenth of the power a graphics card does.
The brain has regions for planning actions that are constantly doing real-time physics calculations so that we are ready to catch, dodge or lift ourselves or other objects as needed, in a moments notice. The movement disorder apraxia with damage to the motor areas of the brain could be due to an impairment of the brain to make physical judgments.
This physics engine has its limitations, that is to classical physics, the world we live in and experience. Making sense of an unreality we don't live in, like quantum "physics", is not something we can easily make sense of. A better understanding of this innate capacity could design better robots in the future as well.
Test Your Brain's "Physics Engine"
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crazy what the brain can so. and im sure it can do a bunch more shit we dont understand yet
Our brain is an amazing thing. Perhaps this is the most intricate thing in the whole universe. Everything we have like our own body is here to serve the purpose of our brain. Our eyes, ears, hands, feet, mouth, respiratory system everything have one job, to keep brain alive and provide it information of nearby surrounding.
In near future, we will be able to bring our mind in quantum stage. Nothing is impossible in this world.
I never knew this aspect function of my brain. Thank you
cool, thank you. I have explained about the brain, but honestly I still do not quite understand how we know our scrambled mind power
This is cool, as humans we actually have way more senses than we think, but in today’s way of life we just don’t really use them anymore
This rings true and it’s remarkable to think of; I skateboarded for years and I still snowboard and the things we do and calculate in our brain in these kinds of activities is unreal. The calculations that must have gone on in fractions of a second are crazy. Thanks for the food for thought.
This was interesting. It does seem like a necessary system for all of the higher animals. That makes me wonder how far down it goes in terms of simplicity. Certainly anything that hunts would need to have some "understanding" of how both objects and pray react to things but I suspect that anything that moves around in its enviroment needs this ability.
A new lesson That is very useful to me
Our physics engine knows our world is motionless 👍
Most children are born with a dominant tendency in the right brain. The right hemisphere is more useful when they form events into a pattern as long as they find the world. Children in the early years learn to respond to the familiar shapes, smells, and sounds. As they grow and connections between the two hemispheres begin to build, they begin to show stronger cognitive abilities in the new right hemisphere and then the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is the source of intuition, insight, metaphor, imagination. This right hemisphere has a lot of charge in its involvement in the process of kretaifitas. Likes funny is one of the characteristics of the right hemisphere. That characteristic is also what we can meet in creative people.
Most children are born with a dominant tendency in the right brain. The right hemisphere is more useful when they form events into a pattern as long as they find the world. Children in the early years learn to respond to the familiar shapes, smells, and sounds. As they grow and connections between the two hemispheres begin to build, they begin to show stronger cognitive abilities in the new right hemisphere and then the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is the source of intuition, insight, metaphor, imagination. This right hemisphere has a lot of charge in its involvement in the process of kretaifitas. Likes funny is one of the characteristics of the right hemisphere. That characteristic is also what we can meet in creative people.
The brain 🧠 a very important part of the body, what it does can’t be overemphasized they is a need to know more about how it work. Which you have given us a good account of it @krnel thanks boss
Very true, it’s interesting to see how quantum physics is evolving and questioning some core beliefs of classical physics as well. A fascinating subject with infinite possibilities. I suppose because we are physical, as we grow from infancy we can recognise our physical space’s behaviour and therefore predict it’s physics instinctually.
Very true, it’s interesting to see how quantum physics is evolving and questioning some core beliefs of classical physics as well. A fascinating subject with infinite possibilities. I suppose because we are physical, as we grow from infancy we can recognise our physical space’s behaviour and therefore predict it’s physics instinctually.
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